...300 to 500 people) for comprehensive service and improvement of the entire army.

I warmly recommend these comrades and earnestly request that you take all measures to ensure they are not lost, but are properly and carefully placed. I earnestly request that you inform me of receipt of this letter and where and how the comrades have been assigned.

Chairman of the Council of Defense V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

First published in 1942

in Lenin's Collection XXXIV

Printed from the manuscript